Considering the contribution of the distribution of individual wages and earnings to that of household incomes we find … inequality, data sources, and stylized facts of wage dispersion for rich countries. The literature explaining the dispersion of …

This paper evaluates the effects of the newly introduced German minimum wage on the distribution of hourly wages and … Germany that includes information on hourly wages and hours worked. We provide a full distributional analysis based on …-over effects up to 20 percent above it. We show that inequality in hourly wages fell between 2014 and 2018, but that the long …

results show that the minimum wage crowded out hourly wages below the minimum threshold, benefitted monthly wages in the lower …

distribution of wages, hours, and consumption. The model is successful at matching the evolution of both the first and second … worked over the first half of the working life, while respecting the constraints imposed by the data on consumption and wages …

Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel, we show that changes in working hours, not changes in wages, are the … earnings distribution based on desired working hours and actual hourly wages exhibits significantly less inequality than the …

-skilled workers with wages just above the minimum wage, but negative effects for high-skilled top earners in East Germany, where the …

-skilled workers with wages just above the minimum wage, but negative effects for high-skilled top earners in East Germany, where the …

-skilled workers with wages just above the minimum wage, but negative effects for high-skilled top earners in East Germany, where the …

This paper evaluates the effects of the newly introduced German minimum wage on the distribution of hourly wages and … Germany that includes information on hourly wages and hours worked. We provide a full distributional analysis based on …-over effects up to 20 percent above it. We show that inequality in hourly wages fell between 2014 and 2018, but that the long …